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The Seal

of Iloavon;

The Chria-

Mirror; and Recollections of a Long

tiaiii

He

Life.

died Feb. 25, 1880, in Richmond,

Va. Jett, Thomas Marion, luwyer, congressnian, was lyorn May 1, 1H«»2, in Boml ci><

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county. two ering

III.

and



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In 1897-1003 he wan a representative to the fifty-lifth, fifty sixth and fifty-seventh congresMea as a democrat. He has always heen alxiut eight years.

prominently identifieil with the busincr^s and puidic alfairs of Hills-

where he has

heiil

numerous

local

positions of trust and honor. Jeter, Thomas B., lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born in 182.>. He served several terms as state senator of South Carolina; was president of the state senate at the time of the resignation of (Jovernor Simpscm in 1880; and by virtue of his ollicc Mr. Jeter b««came the forty-tifth governor of the stale. He resigne<l in 1880 to accept the position of chief justice of the state supreme court; and in 1883 was appointe<l one of the railroad conwnissioner8 of the state. He died May 20, 1883.

Jewell, Frederick Swartz, «'ducator. clergyman, author, was born Jan. 23, 1821, in Choctaw Nation, Miss. In 1875 ho iM'came a clergAinan of the protestant episcopal church; and has tilled pastorate's in Connecticut, Illinois and Wisconsin. For fourteen years he was professor of English language and literature at the state normal seluMd at .Albany. N.Y.; and is now professor of hist«iry and philosophy at (Jrafton hiill of Inmd du I>ac, Wis, He is the author Dramatical Diaof Seh«K>l (Jovcrnment; grams; and Christian Science Kxamin«-d. He died in 1!M»3 in Fond du I>ac, Wis. Jewell, Harvey, lawyer, jurist, wac born May 2(1. 1S20. in Winchester, N.H. He was judge of c(uirt of commissioners of Alabama claims. He died Dec. 8, 1881, in Hosloii.

Jewell, Theodore Frelinghuysen, naval ofwas l>orn Aug. 5, 1844, in Georgetown, He served on all the foreign stations; was in connnand of the naval torpc<lo stali(m for three years; and for the same period was superintendent of the naval gunfartory. During the war with Spain he (onimanded the Cnited States protected cruiser .Minneapolis. licer,

D.C.

Jewett. C. C, lawyer, jurist. He moved to .rkaiisas; and was appointetl a justice of the I nited States court for that territory. .After it became a state he continued on the iH'ncli as judge of the Cnited States ilistrict

court.

grees

in

Hartford. Conn.

of

.A.H.,

A.M.

and Sc.D.; in 1871 he graduated from the College

physicians

of

and surgeons of York City with degree of M.D. t-tetrics

New the

He

was professor of oband peiliatrics at the Long Island

htispital; obstetrician to that hos|iital; and consulting «>bstetrician to the Kings county liospital. He is the author of Essentials of <)bstctri«'s; and Children's Nursery. He died

1900.

niMtuI

Jt^wett, Charles Coffin, bibliographer, au(lior. was lH)rn -Aug. 12, 181G, in L«'banon, .Maine. He was the first superintendent of the Itoston public librarj'. He was the author of Facts and Considerations Relative to Duties on IhM»ks; N(»tice3 of Public Libraries in the I'nited States; and Const ruction of Catalogues. He r,

.Mich.

schools

of

and

N.Y.; velopemat. wiis lK>rn Oct. 20. 182.'), in N inclu-ster. N.H. He was the twenty sixth gov••rnor of Conneoticnt in ISdU 7(1 and 1S7172: was appcunted minister |ileui|Mit«'iitiary to Russia in 1873; and in 1S7I7«» he was postmaster-general. IU> died Feb. 10, 1883,

Arkansas.

in

graduated from H(»wdoin college, where he has received the de-

Mass.

gr>>er)u»r,

He died

Jewett, Charles, physician, surgeon, author, was l>orn in 1842 in Hath, Maine. He was educated in the common schools; and graduated from the high school of Hath. 18tJ4 he Maine. In

entered

i

n g

when

establishment sixteen years of

age and mastered

in

due time

details the of the business, which he has given Ins continuous attention ever since. .At the outlu-eak of the civil war he eiilist^'d as a private stddier in the seventyfourlli

He was

New York national guard. regularly promoted until 1884, when

regiment

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